Zakir Naik – Conference of Scholars for 1 year Solidarity for Gaza in Turkey
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I welcome
all of you
with the Islamic greetings, Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuhu.
May peace, mercy and blessing of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala be on all of you.
It's an honour for me to be invited
by the organisers of this event, which is
to mark the solidarity after one lunar year,
after the attack on Gaza, which took place
on the 7th of October 2023.
And we know from the report of Al
-Jazeera two days ago, on the 24th of
September 2024, that a total of 41,467
people in Gaza have been killed.
These are the confirmed records.
And 95,921 people have been seriously wounded.
Of course, the actual figure would be much
more.
There will be tens of thousands of people
more who have been killed, and hundreds of
thousands who have been wounded.
These are the confirmed cases known to the
authorities of Gaza.
And we know that for the last one
year, what has been happening is nothing but
a genocide in Gaza.
And we are in solidarity with the people
of Palestine, especially Gaza, for the last 75
years that they have been struggling and fighting
for the freedom, especially the last one year.
Since the 7th of October 2023, since the
last one lunar year, the struggle has reached
its pinnacle.
And we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that may the people who have been
martyred, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant
them Janat al-Firdos al-Ala, and may
the people who have suffered, who have been
wounded, and we know that more than 80
% of the people of Gaza have been
displaced.
We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to give them istiqamah, to give them sabr,
to give them steadfastness, to give them patience
and solace.
What the people of Palestine, especially the people
of Gaza are doing, is they are doing
farzi kafaya.
They are protecting the third holiest site in
Islam, that is Masjid al-Aqsa.
If they would not have been there, we
would have to do that job.
So the full Muslim ummah is thankful to
the people of Palestine, especially the people of
Gaza.
And the atrocities that have happened in the
last one year particularly, it is unbelievable.
And this is the first time that there
is a genocide which has been telecast live.
There have been many genocides before, which we
come to know, we get evidence sometimes after
years, sometimes after months, sometimes after weeks.
This is the first time in the history
of humankind that a genocide, what was happening
in Gaza for the last one lunar year,
has been telecast live on the social media.
And we know that the atrocities that have
been done on the people of Gaza, what
Israel has done, they have broken almost all
the rules of international laws.
They are selectively targeting innocent civilians.
They are bombarding hospitals.
They are stopping the relief material that is
reaching to Gaza, whether it be medicine, whether
it be water, whether it be electricity.
And according to reports, the people that have
been killed, more than two-thirds were women
and children.
It is nothing but a genocide.
And when we see what is happening in
Gaza, it is a reminder to us Muslims,
when we read the Qur'an, when we
read the hadith, how the sahabas, how they
sacrificed their lives, how they did jiddu jihad,
they struggled for the cause of Islam.
When we see what is happening in Gaza,
it is a reminder.
It makes us understand the Qur'an better.
It makes us Muslims to understand the hadith
better.
And we see a mother whose child or
a son has been martyred, and she is
praying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that
even if you give me 10 more children,
I would love to martyr them for your
cause.
Here we are seeing genuineness, the iman.
And when the non-Muslims, when they are
watching this video which are going viral, they
are shocked.
What kind of iman do these people have?
What kind of religion are they following?
What kind of faith do they follow?
What kind of God do they follow?
Who is this Allah?
That even after so much of atrocities is
being done, instead of complaining, they are saying
alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah.
They are saying mashallah, as Allah wills.
They are shocked so much so that in
the last one lunar year, we have reports
of tens of thousands of non-Muslims who
have accepted Islam only by watching the news
of Gaza.
Only by knowing what has happened in Gaza,
there are tens of thousands of non-Muslims
all over the world, especially in Western countries
that have accepted Islam.
And we find a larger number, tens of
millions of non-Muslims.
Before this, the non-Muslims hardly knew what
was happening in Gaza, what was happening in
Palestine for the last 75 years.
And there was a one-sided narration in
the media.
Now when they are seeing, their eyes are
opening.
They have realized the truth so much so
that now, there are tens of millions of
non-Muslims who have come to know about
Islam.
And we find them in protest.
Large number of non-Muslims are protesting all
over the world, not only in Muslim countries,
in non-Muslim countries against the atrocities, what
is happening in Gaza.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as Allah
says in the Quran, in Surah Imran, chapter
number three, verse number 54, They planned and
plotted, Allah to plan.
Allah is the best of planner.
They planned and plotted, Allah is the best
of planner.
Here we see that whatever atrocities they're doing
now, it's open to the world.
It is a double standard what they talk
about human rights.
It's nothing but a violation of the human
rights.
We are here when one lunar year has
been completed.
We are here in solidarity for the people
of Gaza.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with you.
We request you to continue your struggle.
And inshallah, we pray to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala so that he gives you the
best in this world as well as in
the Akhirah.
I'd given a speech on this topic of
15-point action plan or 13-point action
plan for the Muslim Ummah for the Palestinian
cause.
And time will not permit me to repeat
all the points, but it is a fard
for every Muslim.
The least we can do is pray for
the people of Palestine, is to pray for
the people of Gaza.
And the best time to pray is in
the last one-third of night, in tahajjud,
in your sujood.
Because Allah answers the prayer the best at
that time.
And we find Muslim Ummah in many countries.
They are reading the Nuzul-e-Qunut in
every salah.
In five-time salah, in jamaat, they are
praying for the people of Palestine.
It is the duty that we pray for
them.
It is the duty that we spread the
atrocities that is being done on the people
of Gaza all over the world on our
social media, whether it be on Facebook, whether
it be on YouTube, whether it be Instagram.
See to it that you bring in awareness
all over the world.
It's your duty.
And we have to protest against the atrocities.
Protest many a times does wonders.
And what we find that in the last
few months, the protests have not only been
in the Muslim countries, they have been in
the non-Muslim countries.
Even in America, in UK, in European countries,
all these countries are strong allies of Israel.
And we see the common man, the non
-Muslims, coming in huge numbers, in tens of
thousands, in hundreds of thousands, in large numbers
protesting against the atrocities that is being done
on the people of Gaza.
And we find that today, only because of
what's happening in Gaza and the way the
people in Gaza are reacting, the Iman that
they have, we find that the tens of
millions of non-Muslims, they have come closer
to Islam.
And we have to see to it that
we contribute the best that we can for
the cause of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We have to see to it that whatever
you have, whatever limited resources Allah has given
you, or whatever maximum resources Allah has given
you, you have to sacrifice that for the
cause of the people of Gaza so that
we get the ajar in return.
And even boycotting is a very good strategy.
And we know because of the boycott that
has been done in the past several months,
there has been a great loss for companies
like Starbucks, like companies like McDonald's, which are
supporters of the atrocities, supporting Israel in atrocities
done on the people of Gaza.
And we find that they have gone in
huge losses, in huge losses, so much so
that many of the people who were supporting
Israel in attacking Gaza are now supporting Gaza.
We have to do our duty as Muslims.
And I would like to end this short
speech of mine in just reminding the people
that what the people of Gaza are doing
are phenomenal.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward you.
May Allah grant you the highest levels of
Jannah.
May Allah give you sabr.
May Allah give you istiqamah.
And it is the duty of every Muslim
that we stand by the people of Gaza
and we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that may He solve all your problems
and let peace prevail back into the land
of Palestine.
I would like to end the speech with
the ayah I quoted of Surah Isra, chapter
17, verse number 81, where Allah says, وَقُلْ
جَعَالْحَقْوَذَاقَ الْبَاطِلِ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلِ كَانَ هَذُوكَ وَإِنْ ثُرِثَ
الْحَلَقَ إِنْ فَالسُّوْتِ فَالسُّوْتِ بَارِشِهِ فَالسُّوْتِ بَارِشِهِ وآخر
دعوانا الحمد لله رب العالمين